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Diseased states : epidemic control in Britain and the United States

McCoy, Charles Allan, Jr., author

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\"Outbreaks of Ebola, SARS, MERS, and pandemic influenza are brutal reminders of the dangers of infectious disease. Comparing the development of disease control in Britain and the United States, from the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia to the H1N1 panics of more recent times, Diseased States provides a blueprint for managing pandemics in the twenty-first century. To understand why these two nations have handled contemporary disease threats in such different ways, Charles Allan McCoy examines when and how disease control measures were adopted in each country from the nineteenth century onward, which medical theory of disease was dominant at the time, and where disease control was located within the state apparatus. Particular starting conditions put Britain and the United States on distinct trajectories of institutionalization that led to their respective systems of disease control. As McCoy shows, even the seemingly objective matter of contagion is deeply enmeshed in social and political realities, and by developing unique systems of biopower to control the spread of disease, Britain and the United States have established different approaches of exerting political control over citizens' lives and bodies\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Subject: Epidemics Great Britain Prevention History. / Epidemics United States Prevention History. / Communicable diseases Great Britain History. / Communicable diseases United States History. / Medical policy Great Britain History. / Medical policy United States History. / Communicable Disease Control history. / History, Modern 1601-. / Epidemics prevention & control. / Health Policy history. / Communicable diseases. / Epidemics Prevention. / Medical policy. / United States. / United Kingdom. / Great Britain.
• ISBN: 9781625345066, 1625345062, 9781625345073, 1625345070

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